Senior Optimization Engineer - Large-Scale Scheduling

Telemetry Today LLC; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer to own shipyard scheduling at a huge scale. You will model precedence, resources, and constraints, and you will benchmark solvers for makespan, stability, and speed.

You will ship practical, production-ready optimization components with scalable design and strong test coverage. You will collaborate with factory operators and engineers to translate yard practices into constraints and deploy routing, MES, and ERP integration

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production software systems.
• Deep expertise in numerical optimization, including linear programming, MILP, constraint programming, or metaheuristics.
• Hands-on experience with optimization solvers and libraries (Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, SCIP, PuLP, CVXPY, Pyomo).
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Responsibilities

• Formulate shipyard production scheduling as a mathematical optimization problem covering precedence with lag, disjunctive spatial exclusion, multi-resource capacity with qualification matching, calendars and shifts, and material availability.
• Own the solver-agnostic scheduling interface, integrate commercial and open-source solvers behind it, and benchmark them on makespan, stability, resource utilization, and solve time.
• Build the two-tier replan path: fast local repair and background global re-solve that swaps in when better.
• Develop the stability objective and churn policy for replans.
• Establish what 'good enough' means when there is no ground truth: LP relaxations, ensembles, and tests.
• Research approaches beyond the V1 solver including decomposition, metaheuristics, rolling-horizon methods, and novel hardware.

Skills

Numerical optimization

Python

Optimization solvers

Graph algorithms

Scheduling

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in OR/Applied Math/CS/IE

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

PuLP

CVXPY

Pyomo

C++

Rust

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer to own shipyard scheduling at a huge scale. You will model precedence, resources, and constraints, and you will benchmark solvers for makespan, stability, and speed.

You will ship practical, production-ready optimization components with scalable design and strong test coverage. You will collaborate with factory operators and engineers to translate yard practices into constraints and deploy routing, MES, and ERP integration